Large crowds gathered in Tehran waving flags and banners to honor 60 people, including top military figures and nuclear scientists, killed in Iran’s 12-day conflict with Israel earlier this month.
Iranian state media outlet IRIB played patriotic music over video from the state funeral ceremony, which showed mourners reaching out to touch coffins draped in Iran’s red, white and green.
President Masoud Pezeshkian was seen in the crowd, alongside security officers.
Portraits of several slain military figures were displayed on a stage, including images of Major General Hossein Salami and General Mohammad Bagheri.
Some members of the crowd also carried photos of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as demonstrators chanted anti-America and anti-Israel slogans, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Key figures: Hossein Salami was the head of the secretive Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and one the most powerful men in Iran. Mohammad Bagheri had served as the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, which the UK-based International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated could call on more than 500,000 active personnel.
Israel claimed its killing of regime figures such as Salami and Bagheri, as well as several nuclear scientists, were among the key successes of its unprecedented attacks on Iran.
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